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Feature: X-Mas Tidings with Exene Cervenka

Feature: X-Mas Tidings with Exene Cervenka

| December 10, 2022

It’s not like Exene Cervenka has suddenly been transformed — through the charming stop-motion animation process of Rankin-Bass — into a warm, fuzzy feel-good protagonist this year. But the formerly feisty X firebrand has chilled out, post-pandemic, and actually become one Humble new Bumble as her four-decade-old combo heads out on its annual X-Mas Tour […]

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Hello My Name is… John Doe of X

Hello My Name is… John Doe of X

| August 1, 2021 | 0 Comments

  To calm, cool, and collected X anchor John Doe, it’s all about how you see the world these days. Some artists may have dreaded all that enforced 2020 lockdown time as a curse, but, homebound apart from his bandmates in Austin, he viewed it as a blessing, a creative windfall, even though X had […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz February 11th – 14th

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz February 11th – 14th

| February 9, 2021 | 0 Comments

Hideout Chicago presents “A Very Special Valentine’s Day,” a benefit for Chicago community jail support this Thursday with Ohmme, NNAMDĂŹ, AJ Marroquin, Parker Callahan, Monogamy, Maggie Winters, Bone Reader, Meg Indurti, Grace, Freud, Julia Shiplett, and more. The show streams on February 11th at 7 PM. Tickets are on sale now. Tributosaurus members Chris Neville […]

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Hello My Name is…Exene

Hello My Name is…Exene

| December 14, 2020 | 0 Comments

It’s not like Exene Cervenka, and her bandmates in the Los Angeles proto-punk quartet X are just sitting around their respective houses, idly twiddling their thumbs this enforced-lockdown December. But they are coming to surreal grips with the fact that for this Yuletide season, at least, they will not be the hardest-working band on the […]

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Featured: My Back Pages

Featured: My Back Pages

| May 13, 2020 | 0 Comments

First, let me preface this with a little disclaimer. Call me a misanthrope, but — in all my 40-plus years of rock journalism — I have never really been a sharer, outside of my stories. I see no use for social media; I don’t care what your opinion of my work happens to be; this […]

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